[Babel-users] Revised [PATCH 1/2] Allow to independently monitor events for neighbour, interface, route, xroute

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:19 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
>
> > One of my answers to the overload problem was to filter out (via bpf)
> > self inflicted route changes.
>
> I'm not sure I follow.  We're speaking about the control interface here.

It was the generic reminder...

> > It was very effective and one of the things I used to get to 10k+
> > routes. It's a really tiny patch.... bpf is universal... want it again?
>
> I'll be glad to have a look, but I'm probably not going to merge it.  If
> anything deserves optimisation, it should be done in babeld itself, not by
> modifying the traffic post hoc.

Sent under a different cover. Used since 2008 elsewhere. Kills a lot
of useless kernel/userspace transitions, especially when under load.
Babel still has to do the work when bpf isn't enabled.

>
> -- Juliusz



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